MATLOCK!!!

David Broder, is apparently eating quail with others behind Karl Rove's back:

For most of the American public, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt is best defined by his role defending President Bush's controversial veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Leavitt, along with the president, has argued that the bipartisan bill is too ambitious and too expensive, encroaching on the private insurance market. For his pains, he has been characterized as an ogre, standing in the way of better treatment for millions of youngsters in cash-strapped families.

That is not the man I got to know and admire in his years as governor of Utah and a leader in the National Governors Association.

You know, political punditry, aging, and homoeroticism all have their places but I think most of us would prefer "avoidance" as a strategy on the subject of combining all three.